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Several parts of the country, including our home state of Minnesota, have recently been deluged by rainstorms leading to significant issues with flooding. Part of the coverage related to this flooding, including stories published in both Minnesota and Missouri, has centered on the impact flood waters have on the safety of local drinking water.

This leads to perhaps the most important question of all, and one that we’ve heard from some FridgeFilters.com customers, is my drinking water safe?

In answering this question, we first need to determine where the drinking water dispensed by your fridge first originates from.

If your water comes from your municipality, ie ‘city water,’ the answer is very likely ‘yes.’ In the event of any contamination issues with local drinking water, cities will issue a boil water alert or advisory. Read More

[In January of this year, we published the post below in response to a massive contamination incident in Charleston, West Virginia that left between 200,000 and 300,000 residents without clean drinking water.

This post shared with residents the importance of changing refrigerator water filters after any such incident.

Today, nearly 400,000 residents of Toledo, Ohio find themselves in the same scenario. Apart from the references to West Virginia, residents of Toledo will find a lot of the information below relevant to their current situation, as they determine the next steps they need to take to ensure the safety of their drinking water.Read More